Creative Engineering Inc. (partially lost audio of animatronic character's showtapes; 1970s-1980s)

Creative Engineering Inc. is an animatronic company founded in the early 1970's. They are most recognized for producing the Rock-afire Explosion band that operated in Showbiz Pizza Place food chains in the 1980's. Unsurprisingly, many of the audio tracks that accompanied these characters has been LOST, or have yet to resurface digitally online.

The Rock-afire Explosion

Despite being Creative Engineering's most successful product, some Rock-afire showtapes have gone missing.

-"Classic Collection" (FOUND) The fan-compiled showtape collection, the Classic Collection contains most of the Rock-afire's earliest tracks.

-Tribute to Abbey Road (FOUND) Released in 1982, the Tribute to Abbey Road Showtape contained many fan favorite shows. It is availible in it's entirety.

-New Years '82 (FOUND) A promotional showtape released in December of 1982. It is available online.

-Tribute to the Beatles' White Album (FOUND) This showtape was released in 1983, and is considered to be one of the greatest show collections the Rock-afire ever produced. It is available online.

-1983 Christmas Album (FOUND)

-Crazy Colander Head Night (FOUND) Part of the Rock-afire's "Crazy Colander Head Night" promotion, these showtapes were produced in to coincide with the event. They are available online.

-1983 Uncle Klunk Show (FOUND) Audio released to accompany the new Uncle Klunk animatronic released by Creative Engineering to Showbiz in 1983. It is available online.

-1983 Santa Klunk Show (FOUND) Part of the rare "Santa Klunks", this audio is also availible online (it should be noted that the "Santa Klunks" are Uncle Klunk's that are outfitted to look like Santa Claus.)

-Country 1 (FOUND) A collection of songs released by the Rock-afire that were mostly country themed. It is available online.

-Country 2 (FOUND) Similar to Country 1, Country 2 also contains many country themed songs. It too is available online.

-Country Klunk (FOUND)

-Magic Night (FOUND)

-1984 Senior Citizens (FOUND)

-Trivia Night (FOUND)

-Homely for Christmas (FOUND)

-New Years '88 (FOUND)

-Cyberstar Segments (FOUND)

-Show Selector Shows/Voice clips (PARTIALLY LOST)

-Showbiz Corporate Voiced Shows (FOUND)

-Billybob Talking Walk-around Shows (LOST)

-Yogi Bear Showtape (PARTIALLY FOUND)

(Note the New Rock-afire Explosion was a different show, but the showtapes were also programmed on the Classic Rock-afire)

-Looney Bird's Tapes (LOST)

-New Rock-afire Explosion Misc Tapes (LOST)

Many of the LOST tapes of the New Rock-afire exist but with no clean audio of them online.

Wolf Pack 5:

-1980 IAAPA Showtape (LOST)

-Showbiz Pizza Segments (FOUND)

-Misc Shows from other venues (LOST)

Showbiz's Segments are the only clean audio rips to resurface online.

Hard Luck Bears:

-Original Creative Engineering Showtape (FOUND)

-Rockin' Billy and the Bearcats (FOUND)

-Show De Osos (Semi-found)

-Blackpool Beach Park Tape (LOST)

-Honey's Bear Show (LOST)

Honey's Bear Show footage has been seen online, but has since seemed to disappear making it LOST.

Hard Luck Bears (Rock-afire Retrofit):

Videos of this show in action exist but no clean audio has ever surfaced

-Show 1 (LOST)

-Show 2 (LOST)

Moonrockers:

-Moonrockers Show 1 (PARTIALLY found)

Misc. Creative Engineering SHows:

-Creepy Clown Animatronic (Tape exists, nothing recovered from it, so still LOST)

-Reginald J. Flootsnoot (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Wizard of Oz Show (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Bubba the Shakespearean Gorilla (PARTIALLY LOST)

-Dook and Mitzi 2.0 Prototype shows (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Talking Head Shows (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Lazlo the Fortune Teller (LOST)

-The Mijjins IAAPA Tape (LOST)

-The Jungle Juke Band (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-The Cosmic Combo (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Hanna Banana Shows (PARTIALLY LOST)

-Mini-BIllybob Showtapes (LOST/EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)

-Starlauncher (EXISTENCE UNCOMFIRMED)